It's finally happened....
begla:
So it's finally happened, Fuel has hit $1000+ :o
What effect is the having on Airlines?
How long do you think this will last?
Will we see a huge slump soon?
Are the higher prices good? (seperating the real players from the wannabes and also leading to older aircraft to being retired)
Are the prices bad? (making a previously profitable airline bankrupt - which leads back to the previous question)
have fuel prices become rediculous? (considering the current game prices is 5 times the highest real world 2009 price)
Anyone thoughts?
thanks DS :)
ArcherII:
I think that as long as your aircrafts are not thirsty cows you' d be alright. I've recently made a big investment in my young airline by buying two of my leased planes in order to reduce the lease expediture that was starting to beat me up. At first I feared that I might had rushed it, since growing becomes very very slow. But, nearly a month later (and coincidently with the ending of my c-check rounds) I am now cashing a million/week even with those fuel prices. And I have 18 leased planes and 2 owned (from a month ago).
So the key in my opinion is to maintain prices in a good way (not overprice much), I found that having default ticketing is the best thing. Also cutting low LF routes (I had one with 61% even after 4 months - apparently I was overstuffing my own demand), and change them to the most profitable ones.
I don't know much else to do, I currently have two fleet types. A third fleet is most certainly a suicide for my profit margin.
schro:
Actually,if you do the math, fuel prices at $1000/kg is about $3/gallon, which is nowhere near what the high price in 2009 was.
In MT#1, fuel hit about 1400 before backing down, and that was tempered from the real world (the fuel costs in that game world were real life patterend, ATB is random).
Ultimatly, you will see some huge airlines fail left and right, but only if they're poorly managed. Its easy to poorly manage airlines of a huge size as its hard to pay attention to details, but if you don't let fleet commonality get out of control and you keep an eye on your fixed costs, you should be fine.
The fuel thirstyness of the plane doesn't matter so much for short hops - so if you've got a lot of 500km or less routes, you'd probably be better off running cheap cheap cheap MD-80's.... What you will see is that long haul will become unprofitable unless you own the planes.
ekaneti:
Most of my planes are Saab 2000s so I am ok. MX is killing me though. All at the same time
MunMaRu:
I fly long hual route with Boeing 767-400ER It made me more than 800,000 USD per week even fuel price are 1,000$.
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